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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) Irkutsk.

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Dubcek.
(b) Vaclav Havel.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Sakharov.

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) 60 days.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) One year.

4. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) Two hours.
(c) An hour.
(d) 10 minutes.

5. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) Buchenwald Monument.
(b) Dachau Memorial.
(c) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
(d) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

2. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

3. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

4. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

5. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

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